Posted by JonThe speaker of the UK House of Commons gave a witheringly sarcastic put-down to prime minister David Cameron last week:

“It’s a good idea to try to remember the essence of the question that was put.”

We could apply this to proposals, of course – not only answer the question (’compliant’) but address its essence (’responsive’). When speaker Bercow gets kicked out of office, he might think of proposal management as a second career… and in the meantime, I can see myself quoting him to various recalcitrant content contributors!